The Dixie Amateur
Radio Club holds a weekly VHF Sunday Night Net each Sunday at 8:00 P.M.
Mountain Time. The net is always at 8:00 P.M. regardless of
whether it
is Mountain Standard Time (MST)
or Daylight Savings Time (MDT).

The net is held on
the Club's linked repeater system. Here
are the new frequencies that you can check in on:

145.490 MHz Utah Hill (covering most areas of the
southern Washington County, northern Clark County, NV)

146.640MHz Stout
Hill (coverage of Downtown St. George, Washington City and
parts of Hurricane City)

145.450MHz
Toquerville (coverage of northern county, eastern county areas)

Remember, the
frequency that
you should have your transceiver's receiver set on is the
frequency shown above.
You should have the transmit
offset set to minus (-)
600kHz and require a 100hz CTCSS
tone to access.

Most net
control stations also monitor the input frequency to listen for any
stations who may not be getting a sufficient signal to the repeater
station.

All Club Members are encouraged to
check in to the net. Use the link below for
a "check-in roster" of net members.

All licensed ham operators
visitors
are especially invited to participate in the DARC Sunday Night
Net. Check-ins for visitors will occur after the roll-call.

CLICK HERE to view a PDF presentation
on the linked repeater system (PDF file viewer required).

Current
Sunday
Night Net Roster

Previous
Sunday Night Net Roster

DARC club members and visitors,

Due to the enormous and almost unmanageable growth of the Sunday
Evening Net we need to make some protocol changes regarding the
expiration of operators on the roll call list. For quite some time we
have not been enforcing the requirements, as indicated in the preamble,
that require a operator to check in twice every calendar month to
remain a member of the roll call list. Instead we have allowing anyone
to check in once every three months, and continue to remain a member.

There were numerous reasons for doing this, however, it has caused the
list to become almost unmanageable. The changes we will make to the
protocol will help alleviate this problem, will be clear in the
preamble, will be more lenient than the previous official protocol, and
finally no one will be exempt from it. Starting January 1st
of 2017, the preamble will be changed to 5tate that members must
check in once every calendar month in order to remain on the roll call
list.

Members will still have the opportunity to freeze their place on the
roll when they are on vacation or physically unable to check in due to
sickness or equipment failure. But when they freeze their spot, their
call-sign will not be called on the roll until they ask a net control
operator to unfreeze them. At the end of every month, any member
without exception who has not checked in at least once, and has not
been frozen, will be removed from the roll call list, and will loose
their placement. To re-join the list, they will need to check in 3
times in a calendar month as a guest, and then be added to the end of
the list.

Thank you for your understanding with this issue, and we look forward
to hearing you on the air.

Sincerely,

The DARC Sunday Evening Net Control Operators

P.S. Checking
in the Club's Sunday Night VHF net each week is a good way to test your
equipment
and it also is a great way for new ham radio operators to become more
comfortable talking over the radio.

Sunday
Night Net
Preamble

When the net
is
called, a very specific preamble is read. Please CLICK HERE to
view/download/print the net preamble.

ARRL
Amateur Radio Radiogram Message Form
and Instructions

The American Radio Relay League
has
an official message form used for
passing formal written traffic, known as a Radiogram. Please CLICK HERE to view/print the
ARRL Radiogram Form.

There are instructions for properly using the Radiogram form. Please CLICK HERE to view/print the
instructions (ARRL Form FSD-3).

(Please note:
You will need an Adobe Acrobat compatible reader to view/print
the Net Roster and Net Preamble and Message Forms/Instructions)